Author Archives: Wes Flexner

Listen: Curren$y – “Jet Life” (Remix) Ft. Big K.R.I.T., Young Jeezy & Lil Wayne

New remix of Curren$y’s “Jet Life” ft. Big K.R.I.T., Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne.   The “Jet Life” remix is from the deluxe version Curren$y’s latest album, The Stoned Immaculate

Video: Jeff the Brotherhood – “Six Pack” (NSFW)

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The above Jeff the Brotherhood video for Six Pack has the Nashville sibling duo canoeing with their friends and enjoying some booze. The song itself, “Six Pack”,  is produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. The video is NSFW because there are slight shots of wangs but it’s not gross and you kinda respect a band that has a party video that has women in bathing suits present in it but do not have to use boobs to keep your attention.  Dudes doing cannonballs with babes in a river.  Do you actually own swimming trunks? If so; did you buy them at Target?  Or did you go bathing suit shopping with one of your friends. I have never gone bathing suit shopping with any of my dudes. I’d rather let my nuts hang.

Jeff the Brotherhood will be playing the Basement in Columbus, Ohio, 08/01/2012 in support of their upcoming album Hypnotic Nights which drops 7/17/12.  This album was c0- produced by Jeff the Brotherhood and Dan Auerbach.

Download: Theophilus London – “Rose Island Vol. 1” Mixtape

MP3: Theophilus London – “Rose Island Volume 1”

When I interviewed Theophilus London for the Other Paper last week the Brooklyn rapper described his new tape “Rose Island Volume 1”  like this:

What can we expect from Rose Island?
You know how kids from the ’80’s love shit from the ’50s? I am getting back to my Marvin Gaye influence. I am shutting out this whole world that exists today. It’s not inspired by any artists from this past decade or anything. It’s me back to my pure essence. It is not MP3-type music or commercialized music. I called it Rose Island because it’s an island far away from what’s going on with this Internet shit.

Rose Island Volume 1 guests include Marvin Gaye, A$ap Rocky, Big Boi, Sade, and Lunice

Read the full The Other Paper interview with Theophilus here.

Higher Level Art’s Talk @ TEDxCincy About Transforming Spaces

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Ohio based art collective Higher Level Art spoke to TEDxCincy  earlier this month about transforming sometimes sterile spaces like classrooms and corporate offices into vibrant and engaging creative zones via technics learned from their graffiti experience.

MP3: Izzy Famous- July 4th (Produced By the Audio Unit)

MP3: Izzy_Famous – July 4th (Produced_By_Tha_Audio_Unit)

Izzy Famous and AU team up for a July 4th a song perfect to listen to
while letting off illegal fireworks, watching Red, White and Boom or just grillin’ out. AU is the producer responsible for Columbus classics like P.Blackk’s Concorde Rollin’ and Lxe for the Uncool’s “Polo on My Body”.

Below is a video of the Cleveland Police detonating fireworks they confiscated from citizens.

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Video: Aesop Rock – “ZZZ TOP”

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Aesop Rock dropped a video for ZZZ TOP off his upcoming album Skelethon which comes out 6/10/12 on Rhymesayers Entertainment. No, Aes Rizzle is not rocking cheap sunglasses and a beard as the name of the song might make you think.

This is a kung fu jump-off.

I guess kung fu was in the air yesterday as  RZA announced his upcoming Kung Fu movie The Man with Iron FIst will feature music from Kanye West, The Black Keys, Wu-Tang and Wiz Khalifa according to Consequence of Sound.

Kathy Griffin And Anderson Cooper Discuss A$ap Rocky & Danny Brown

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Posting this one late because the power was out all day in Central Ohio because monsoon.

Last week we posted a video of A$ap Rocky & Danny Brown discussing older women that they would do it with for Noisey.  One of those women was Kathy Griffin. Well, Kathy Greffin saw the discussion and brought it up on her Bravo TV  Show.  Watch her and Anderson Cooper(!) talk about how they are feeling Danny Brown & A$ap Rocky and rap in general.

Video: Odd Future – “Sam Is Dead” Short Film

It’s too bad Tedd Koppel’s Nightline TV Show wasn’t around to talk with Tyler, the Creator after Odd Future’s historic appearance on Jimmy Fallon, or the debut of the Yonkers video like he did with Madonna or Public Enemy when they dropped controversial videos.

At Midnight est Odd Future will premiere a short film that us directed by Wolf Haley and features himself, Domo Genesis and Lee Spielman of Trash Talk, Manface, Lionel “L-Boy” Boyce, Brick Stowell and Lucas Vercetti, the film will feature an original score composed by Tyler, The Creator.

While, Odd Future doesn’t have the element of surprise on their side anymore; I am eager to watch this.

UPDATED: Below is the video for Sam Is Dead which is  a war story built around Tyler’s & Domo’s song off OF VOL 2.  The video is not shocking but slick in a manner that speaks with confidence of the staying power of Odd Future.

Watch after the jump.

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A$AP Rocky Talks To Noisey About Playing Trill JFK and Lana & Waka on His New Album

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Noisey has a pretty good interview with A$ap Rocky about playing a “trill JFK” in Lana Del Rey’s “National Anthem” video (above), In this interview Rocky discusses groping Lana Del Rey  while filming “National Anthem”. I am a decent looking man. I have nice eyes. But I do not grope women unless I am already having sex with them and they are on the phone with someone they are related to.

But A$ap is dat pretty mfer so I imagine unsolicited ass-grabbing is situationally acceptable from him.

I watched the video several times to figure out when Rocky groped her. At first, I thought maybe he grabbed her boob because he really is never near her butt. But in the interview he definitely says “buns”. Whatever the case, Del Rey  is on Rocky’s upcoming album LongLiveA$AP on a song called “My Bitch”, which drops September 11th.

I guess Waka Flocka Flame,  and Pharrell are among the other guests according to this interview. No word if Rocky also groped Waka Flocka Flame but I would assume he would not because A$ap is not homophobic so therefore he is not repressing an existence of latent homosexuality.

from A$AP ROCKY PLAYS JFK IN LANA DEL REY’S NEW VIDEO

I love it, yeah. I think you make a great JFK. How did it come about?
Lana wrote the treatment with me in mind. She wanted me to be the lead guy. Shit is like, everybody knows we got a thing for each other and we wanted to show that on screen. She’s a genius like…. nigga look at this bitch, I wanna fuck the shit outta her. Look at her she’s gotta be in her late 30s and shit… Err, Hello?

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Listen: Casual & J.Rawls – “Give Respect”

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Casual & J.Rawls leak “Give Respect” off their upcoming albumRespect Game or Expect Flames”, due August 28th via Nature Sounds.